GAMUG TRIVIA December 2007 QUESTIONS and ANSWERS 1. What Apple Computer luminary began volunteering to teach middle school students in July, 1992, giving each student a new PowerBook 170? Answer: Steve Wozniak Source: www.applematters.com July 25, 2007 2. Name the program that Apple released on August 9, 1987, and gave away free, that offered a new way of managing information based on a note card metaphor. Answer: Hypercard Source: http://www.applematters.com, August 9, 2007. 3. This company’s TimeOut series of software included pop-up applications such as Utramacros, Filemaster, and Graph that ran “inside”, and extended the functionality of, Appleworks on the Apple II platform. Answer: Beagle Brothers Source: http://stevenf.com/beagle/products.html 4. This PowerBook model, released on August 25, 1996, featured the first PowerPC processor in a laptop, but soon became a laughing stock; first, because the batteries overheated, causing fires; and second, because the case began chipping and cracking, necessitating a recall by Apple. Answer: Powerbook 5300 Source: http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/ history/ august25-powerbook-5300-introduced/ 5. In 1999 Apple introduced what it touted as “the world’s first desktop supercomputer,” claiming it was the first personal computer in the world to execute a “gigaflop”, that is, one billion floating point operations per second. What Macintosh model was this? Answer: Power Macintosh G4 Source: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/gallery8.html 6. In 2002 Apple released iCal, its combination calendar and contact manager, as part of Mac OS X. On what date (month and day) in 2002 was this application announced? Hint: This can be an easy question, if you’re not running the application. Answer: July 17 Source: http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2007/07/iconical/ index.php 7. Which of the following is not a sound file type that is supported on the iPod? a. AAC b. AIFF c. WAV d. PNG Answer: d. PNG Source: Mactracker.app 8. If you want to capture video from a TV on your Macintosh, which of the following brands may be of interest to you? a. Elgato b. El Dorado c. El Secundo d. El IfIknow Answer: a. Elgato (makers of eyeTV hardware) Source: http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/59317.html 9. What type of cable connection between a Macintosh and a video camcorder was supported for the first time in iMovie ‘08? Answer: USB 2.0 (Previous versions of iMovie supported only Firewire) Source: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/7.0/en/ 11497.html 10. What pre-Mac OS X keyboard shortcut invoked the “Put Away” command, which would eject a mounted disk or network drive, and also return moved items to their original folders? 1. Command-Y 2. Command-E 3. Option-8 4. Command-right arrow Answer: Command-Y Source: http://macenstein.com/default/archives/822 11. What company offers magnetic media and disk drives with the trademark names Zip and Jazz? Answer Iomega Source http://www.iomega.com/na/landing.jsp 12. What is the name of this star of one of Apple’s “Switch” campaign commercials, in which she lamented the loss of her partially completed school paper caused by a crashing PC by mumbling “beep beep beep” and “bummer.”  Answer: Ellen Feiss Source: http://www.maclife.com/article/10_worst_apple_commercials ?page= 0%2C0 13. In October 2004, Apple introduced a black iPod Special Edition, with a distinctive red clickwheel. For what musical group was this iPod named? a. The Police b. Kiss c. U2 d. Destiny’s Child Answer: c. U2 Source: http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/1014.html#1 14. What company originally published the page layout application Pagemaker, introduced in 1985? Answer: Aldus Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207-page,7-c,technology/ article.html 15. The scaleable font technology known as TrueType was first released in 1991. What two companies codeveloped this technology? a. Adobe and Bitstream b. Xerox and Hewlett-Packard c. Apple and Microsoft d. NeXT and Linotype Answer: c. Apple and Microsoft Source: http://www.truetype-typography.com/tthist.htm 16. The page description language PostScript was developed by Dr. John Warnock and his team at Xerox PARC to control laser printers. Like many other PARC employees, Warnock became discouraged at Xerox's refusal to market his invention, so in 1982 he left to co-found what company? Answer: Dr. John Warnock co-founded Adobe Systems Source: http://www.makingpages.org/pagemaker/history/ 17. September, 2007 marked the 25th anniversary of the text-based sideways smiley symbol : -) invented by Scott E. Fahlman, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. What is a popular name of this and similar “symbols”, such as :-( [frown] ;-) [wink] :-O [mouth open in amazement]? Answer: Emoticons Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/emoticon?cat=technology 18. We all know that when we run short of available memory, our Macs temporarily set aside a portion of the (slow) hard drive to substitute for (fast) memory, a condition known as “virtual memory.” Before OS X, we could create - via the Memory Control Panel - the opposite condition, i.e., a temporary volume in (fast) memory to store data copied from the (slow) hard drive? What was this opposite of virtual memory called? a. Real memory b. Clipboard c. RAM disk d. ROM (Read Only Memory) Answer: c. RAM disk Source: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=16809 19. On September 28, 1997 Apple introduced a television ad campaign featuring black and white footage of famous people including Albert Einstein, John Lennon, Jim Henson and others. What were the final words on the screen, and the theme, of these commercials? Answer: Think Different Source: http://lowendmac.com/orchard/07/0409.html 20. Who narrated the commercials described in question 19? Answer: Richard Dreyfuss Source: http://lowendmac.com/orchard/07/0409.html T1: First Tie Breaker: Name either of the actors who plays “Mac Guy” or “PC Guy” on Apple’s television commercials. Answer: Mac Guy is portrayed by Justin Long. PC Guy is portrayed by John Hodgman Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hodgman T2: Second Tie Breaker: Hypercard, the free program that Apple released in 1987, and the subject of question 2, was used in the initial development of what other-worldly computer game, released in September 1993? Answer: Myst Source: http://www.applematters.com, August 9, 2007.